Systemic cytomegalovirus infection complicating ulcerative colitis: A case report and review of the literature

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 942, 2004, Pages 233-235

  Hamlin, P J ^a   Shah, M N ^a   Scott, N ^a   Wyatt, J I ^a   Howdle, P D ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INFECTION COMPLICATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TISSUE SECTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS INCLUSION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 2342427459     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.007385     Document Type: Article

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